Q 01/05

Which Greek physician from Kos is called the "Father of Medicine"?

A) Galen of Pergamon

B) Asclepius of Epidaurus

C) Herophilus of Chalcedon

D) Hippocrates

Answer · why

D) Hippocrates

Hippocrates, born on Kos around 460 BC, is credited with prognosis, bedside observation and the first description of clubbed fingers, which are called...

Q 02/05

The four humours were blood, phlegm and two kinds of which fluid?

A) Lymph

B) Sweat

C) Urine

D) Bile

Answer · why

D) Bile

Bile came in two kinds, yellow and black; with blood and phlegm they made the four humours, and an excess or shortage of any one was thought to cause ...

Q 03/05

Galen based most of his anatomy on dissecting which animals, human dissection being forbidden in Rome?

A) Oxen

B) Stray dogs

C) Mountain sheep

D) Barbary apes

Answer · why

D) Barbary apes

Barbary apes (macaques) were his main model because Roman law forbade human dissection, which is why Galen's anatomy carried errors, such as a five-lo...

Q 04/05

Who compiled The Canon of Medicine, the 1025 encyclopaedia used as a European textbook into the 18th century?

A) Al-Razi (Rhazes)

B) Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

C) Al-Zahrawi

D) Ibn al-Nafis

Answer · why

B) Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) completed the Canon in 1025; it was translated into Latin by Gerard of Cremona in the 12th century and set the standard in medieva...

Q 05/05

The Edwin Smith Papyrus, the oldest known surgical treatise on trauma, comes from which civilisation?

A) Ancient Egypt

B) Babylon

C) Ancient Greece

D) Han China

Answer · why

A) Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt produced it around 1600 BC, probably copying an Old Kingdom original; it is named after Edwin Smith, the American dealer who bought it i...